Apparatus for making wire glass



Aug. 28, 1923. 1,466,025

N. LISTON APPARATU S FOR MAKING WIRE GLASS Filed Sept. 10 1920 Z'T q. 2.

2M 25? WNTOR} JTTQRNEX Fatented Aug. 28, 1923.

STTES NOAH- A. LISTON, OI! GLASSPOB'I', PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING WIRE GLASS.

Application filed September 10, 1920. Serial No. 409,404.

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, NOAH A. LIs'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glassport, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Making Wire Glass, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for producing so-called wire glass, i. e., sheets of glass having embedded therein wire or wire netting. I-Ieretofore, so far as I am aware, in the production of this character of glass, apparatus has been employed comprising rolls in the peripheral face of which continuous corrugations or serrations were formed, which embedded the .wire or wire netting in the glass in continuous or uninterrupted lines of wire transversely of the sheet, which frequently produced dark colored lines, due to the fact that a large portion of the glass was subjected to the action of the roll and frequently caused oxidation of and around the embedded wire.

The object of this invention is to produce an apparatus which will embed the wire in interrupted or staggered lines and substantially eliminate the objectionable feature heretofore herein mentioned.

I accomplish this purpose by means of the apparatus hereinafter more specifically described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Fig. l is a section on lines 11 of Fig. 2.

2 is a front elevation of the wire embedding roll.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the apparatus.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a sheet of glass showing the wire embedded therein.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the finished sheet.

. Referring to said drawings, 1 is a foundation in the side walls of which a series of rolls, 2, 2, are suitably journalled and on which the table, 8, is supported. 4 is a roll of usual construction, journalled in suitable housings, 5, the said roll being adapted to flatten or roll into sheet form the glass, X, which is charged upon the table in the usual manner. I11 advance of said roll, 4, is positioned the roll, 6, which is supported in housings of usual construction and is adapted to embed the wire or wire netting, A,

which is fed over the guide roll, 7, from any 65 suitable source of supply. The novelty of this invention resides in the construction of roll, 6, which is made up of series of annuluses or rings, a, a, which are mounted upon r the central core, I in which the shaft, B, is secured. One end of said shaft is provided, with a gear wheel, 8. The peripheral faces of the several annuluses or rings are provided with serrations, 0, the serrations on one ring, when said rings are assembled on the core, being out of horizontal alignment with the serrations on the adjacent ring, whereby the wire or wire netting is embed ded in the sheet of glass, y, in staggered or interrupted lines, 03, as shown in Fig. 4, thus preventing the formation of series of dark lines transversely of the sheet, which frequently occurs in the glass formed by the apparatus now employed. l/Vhen the roll, 6, embeds the wire in the glass, the roll, 9, which is of usual construction, rolls the glass over said netting, forming a sheet of glass, having embedded therein in staggered lines said netting or wire.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: I

1. An apparatus for making wire glass, which includes a roll formed of series of annuluses or rings mounted-on a core, the said rings having serrations, the serrations on one ring being out of horizontal alignment with the serrations on the adjacent ring.

2. In an apparatus for making wire glass, the combination of a plurality of rolls arranged tandem, the intermediate roll having its peripheral surface provided with staggered serrations, which extend longitudinally of the roller, whereby the wire is embedded in the sheet of glass in interrupted lines.

3. An apparatus for making wire glass, which includes a roll, the peripheral surface of which is provided with serrations in staggered relation with reference to each other and extending longitudinally of the roller.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NOAH A. LISTON.

In the presence of HARRY GROVE, J. W. GRAMM S. 

